Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 301. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $304. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Morgantina (The Sikeliotes). Circa 214-213 BC. AR 4 Litrai (3.23 gm). Wreathed and veiled head of Persephone left; poppy behind / Nike driving quadriga left; MT monogram. Burnett 112 (same dies); Sjöqvist, "Numismatic Notes from Morgantina: 1. The SIKELIWTAN Coinage," ANSMN 9, pg. 55, 3 (same dies); SNG ANS -; Basel 415 (same dies). EF, some striking weakness on both sides. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 April 1993), lot 162.

The very rare Sikeliotan coinage was struck at Morgantina at a point when it seemed that a native revolt, supported by the Carthaginians, would succeed in driving the Romans from the island. The revolt failed, Morgantina was sacked, and only a scattering of the coinage survived.